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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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enable copy paste images from clipboard to longdescription fields

Hi, it would be very usefull if there would be option of enabling the possibilities to pasting images from clipboard to longdescription fields of eg. SR or service portal applications. This would be the quickest way, rather than just adding attach...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Pictorial Workflow History

ICD currently lists the Workflow History in a series of steps that has been traversed. Requirement is to show these series of steps in the UI as a pictorial map for easier understanding.
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 3 Not under consideration

Table domain: Need an easier way to define what column from the table is returned as the field value

Example: I've created a table domain on the WORKTYPE table. The lookup is returning the value from WORKTYPE.WORKTYPEID field (since it's the tables' unique column). But that's not the field/value I want. I want the value from WORKTYPE.WORKTYPE to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Add to "Attachments" the date it was attached and also the user ID of the user who attached it. Please, display the attachments in date order - newest first.

Add to "Attachments" the date it was attached and also the user ID of the user who attached it. Please, display the attachments in date order - newest first. Under the "View Attachments" dialog, add 2 columns:1. Date/Time of the attachment 2. User...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Do you offer a normalized METERREADING fact table?

The in situ METERREADING fact table appears to be de-normalized and as such may accidentally trigger data hazards such as: Fluidity; Ageing; Biasing; Falsification /Misinformation; Disassociation; Masking; Volume; and/or Interpretation. (And/or in...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Job Plan Conditions should work with PM/JP/Route

Currently, Job Plan Conditions aren't honored when WOs are created from a PM that has a Job Plan and a Route. It would be helpful if Maximo could be enhanced so that Job Plan Conditions work in that scenario.
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

Object Structures: Exclude Attributes Mode should work for Report Object Structures too

In the Object Structures application: Currently, Exclude Attributes Mode isn't designed to work for Report Object Structures (Consumed By = REPORTING). Exclude Attributes Mode is only is designed to work where Consumed By = INTEGRATION. See case #...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration

Ad-hoc report text fields: Align-left instead of align-right (optional setting)

Maximo aligns ad-hoc report text fields to the right, instead of to the left. Screenshot: https://i.stack.imgur.com/KrbtZ.png That's different from most software platforms. Other programs like Excel, MS Access, and SQL clients align text to the le...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 2 Not under consideration

BIRT Support for converting base64 images pasted into Task LD field to print to pdf

Maximo allows images to be pasted into Job Plan Task Long Description field, but when you attempt to print to pdf, the images aren't output. The IBM method is to Attach the images using the "Insert Image" URL link feature. While this works, it def...
almost 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Application XML: List of possible XML properties

It would be helpful if IBM could publish a list of properties that are available for application XML. For example, how would we find out about table control properties like "collapsewhenempty"? There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the pro...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 1 Not under consideration